Another great 50s low-budget movie

I've posted quite a bit about how I love the 1950s scifi and horror movies, because the good ones show the importance of a good story above the importance of special effects. Our next movie displays that quite nicely: I Bury The Living, today at 4:15 PM ET on TCM.

Richard Boone plays the chairman of a tony cemetery. In the caretaker's house, there's a map of the cemetery plots, with white pins for people who have purchased plots but not yet died, and black pins for the people who have died and thus filled their plots. One day, Boone accidentally puts a black pin in the plots of a young married couple instead of the white pin. It's a simple enough mistake, but Boone is shocked when he learns soon thereafter that the couple died in a car crash! Boone thinks he might have done something to cause their deaths, and comes up with a really smart experiment to test that hypothesis: he puts black pins in other still-living people's plots. They die, too, and now Boone thinks he's got the power of life and death over people. It's not a power he wants, though....

There's not much in the way of sets, other than the cemetery, and so the movie could be done fairly cheaply. That having been said, it's a very interesting little movie.